Any Ubuntu/Linux users here?
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- ernexbcn0
I use it on an old PC I have at home as a server and also on my webservers online
- Peter0
ubuntu
Used as a home server (macs all round). Work files, so on.
But also as a mediaserver/station. I can't stop raving about Boxee for it. It's amazing, and it's free. Works for Mac too but somehow it seems to float more smoothly on a Ubuntu pc. http://www.boxee.tv/
There's a free remote app for the iphone too. It practically steals away productive hours.
- HijoDMaite0
I just installed Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron (Win/Ubuntu boot up option.) I frekkin love it!! So clean, so fast! The Pirate Bay is running soooo smooth. How is everyone not doing this?
- plash0
I use backtrack form time to time.
- mrsprinkles0
I like ubuntu but I keep going back to OS X. I use debian and ubuntu server for all the websites I work on though.. I use parallels desktop to setup local dev linux environments and openvz if the dev environment can't be done locally. works really well!
- Hombre_Lobo0
@HijoDMaite
Its great isnt it! looks great, runs smooth, absolute winner! pleased you like it :)
If only it had all adobe apps working on it, then id say bye to windows / just use windows for gaming.
- Hombre_Lobo0
@mrsprinkles
yeh ubuntu is great for web developers and programmers, its easier to get the related programs working on ubuntu than it is to get the adobe suite working.
- comicsans0
Ubuntu fanboys are second only to Apple fanboys in their uncritical, and largely uneducated, devotion. It's an OK starter Linux made easy for the unskilled to use but lots about it is still flaky, particularly wireless and ISTR soundcards. Check out Mint and Fedora also.
As for servers, people in the know who want stability and world class support use RHEL, cheapskates use Centos or a BSD.
- Hombre_Lobo0
@comicsans
Ubuntu fanboys? i dont think ive met any, but i can imagine them, the ones with the wierd facial hair and ubuntu logo t-shirt.flaky wireless? i get better wireless on my Ubuntu 9.10 than i do on xp. And the wireless works instantly after installing ubuntu without the need to install any drivers. Fedora is good.
But best of all its an OS that is sufficient for most computer users and its entirely free. How can you not think its a good thing.
Are you not a fan comicsans?
- HijoDMaite0
@Hombre_Lobo
I start school in September, any issues with OpenOffice/MS Word compatability? I am going to be spending a lot of time at computer lab.
- sublocked0
I run debian on all my servers. Does that count?
- mrsprinkles0
@comicsans
Your comment bleeds ignorance. It's not what you use, it's how you use it. I roll a 30 server ubuntu/debian cluster. It's rock solid and simple enough that you don't need "world class support".I also think it's silly you recommend people try linux mint and not ubuntu cause it's "flaky"--when it's totally based on ubuntu, uses the same repositories, etc..
if fedora, centos, or paying for RHEL works for you, that's awesome. but don't spread FUD about shit you don't know.
and please, stay off my lawn